Shorties (Haruki Murakami, Amanda Palmer, and more)

The Yomiuri Shimbun interviews author Haruki Murakami. (part 2 of the interview) How indie musician Amanda Palmer made $19,000 on Twitter in 10 hours. Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include mp3s of performances...... (

Shorties (Haruki Murakami, Amanda Palmer, and more)

The Yomiuri Shimbun interviews author Haruki Murakami. (part 2 of the interview) How indie musician Amanda Palmer made $19,000 on Twitter in 10 hours. Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include mp3s of performances...... (

Bruce Palmer "The Cycle Is Complete" (1971)

Es raro encontrar por las estirpes psicodélicas a bajistas que deliren y lleven a cabo sus propios proyectos, amores, sonidos y vibraciones, que experimenten y se sientan libres de darle forma a un concepto. El canadiense Bruce Palmer nos muestra que no existen tales limitacione

Sound of Summer Part 1

photo:magic_fly Well I haven't really got anything new to post on so I thought I'd write a post I've been meaning to for a while. I dunno how many parts this idea will have but its basically just intended to post some nice summery songs, however old or new. The first of 2 I have

Super Groups love them or hate them?

When I was still a young and very impressionable guitarists, once in a while I'd hear of a collection of musicians, from different bands, that would get together to form this new thing called a Super Group. I could only imagine great tunes coming from these musically gifted artis

NFL Draft Preview JCATO Style

I love the NFL Draft. The surprises, the live coverage, the 3500 picks, the Minnesota Vikings mishaps. I'm just waiting for them to add a musical element to it. You know, like when they say, "With the first pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions select (insert Matt Staffor

Earl Palmer dies .....

Drummer Earl Palmer, who was described by rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard as "probably the greatest session drummer of all time" has died aged 84. Palmer who played on Little Richard's hits including Tutti Frutti, died at his Los Angeles home after "a lengthy illness", his s